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Airwallex

Airwallex is a financial technology company that specializes in providing global payment solutions for businesses. Their platform enables companies to accept payments, manage multi-currency accounts, convert currencies at competitive rates, send cross-border payments, issue corporate cards, and embed financial services into their own products. Airwallex serves businesses in over 150 countries with APIs for payment acceptance, FX, accounts, transfers, and embedded finance.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Airwallex the way a machine reads it — 54 machine-readable artifacts across 14 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Airwallex scores 68.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 68.9/100 · strong
Contract Quality 15.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 15.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 11.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Airwallex

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Airwallex. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 14

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Airwallex Payment Acceptance API

The Airwallex Payment Acceptance API enables businesses to accept online payments globally. Supports credit and debit cards, local payment methods, and 3D Secure. Available as h...

Airwallex Global Accounts API

The Airwallex Global Accounts API enables businesses to create and manage multi-currency accounts. Supports account creation, balance management, account statements, and receivi...

Airwallex Payouts API

The Airwallex Payouts API enables businesses to send cross-border payments to suppliers, contractors, and employees globally. Supports bank transfers to 150+ countries, bulk pay...

Airwallex FX API

The Airwallex FX API provides access to real-time foreign exchange rates and currency conversion. Supports spot conversions, rate quotes, and conversion history for 60+ currencies.

Airwallex Issuing API

The Airwallex Issuing API enables businesses to create and manage virtual and physical corporate cards for employee spending. Supports card issuance, spend controls, transaction...

Airwallex Platform API

The Airwallex Platform API enables businesses to embed financial services into their products. Supports merchant onboarding, sub-account management, platform payments, and split...

Airwallex Authentication API

The Authentication API from Airwallex — 1 operation(s) for authentication.

Airwallex Balances API

The Balances API from Airwallex — 1 operation(s) for balances.

Airwallex Beneficiaries API

The Beneficiaries API from Airwallex — 3 operation(s) for beneficiaries.

Airwallex Customers API

The Customers API from Airwallex — 2 operation(s) for customers.

Airwallex Payment Intents API

The Payment Intents API from Airwallex — 5 operation(s) for payment intents.

Airwallex Payouts API

The Payouts API from Airwallex — 2 operation(s) for payouts.

Airwallex Refunds API

The Refunds API from Airwallex — 2 operation(s) for refunds.

Airwallex Transfers API

The Transfers API from Airwallex — 2 operation(s) for transfers.

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Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Airwallex Open API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Airwallex Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 9

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Global Payment Acceptance

Accept payments in 180+ currencies via cards and local payment methods.

Multi-Currency Accounts

Hold, manage, and convert funds in 60+ currencies.

Cross-Border Payouts

Send payments to 150+ countries with competitive FX rates.

FX Conversion

Real-time currency conversion at competitive exchange rates.

Corporate Card Issuing

Issue virtual and physical Visa cards for employee spending.

Embedded Finance

Embed Airwallex financial services into your own platform.

Mobile SDKs

iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter SDKs for in-app payments.

Webhooks

Real-time event notifications for payment status changes.

Risk Management

Built-in fraud detection and risk scoring via the Airwallex Risk SDK.

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Airwallex Context

6 classes · 19 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Airwallex API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Airwallex API Rules

32 rules · 11 errors · 17 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 4

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Account

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FxQuote

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PaymentIntent

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Transfer

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 4

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Airwallex Account Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Airwallex Fx Quote Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Airwallex Payment Intent Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Airwallex Transfer Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 4

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Airwallex Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Airwallex Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Airwallex Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Airwallex Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Airwallex Agentic Access

18 operations · 10 acting

18 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 7

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

E-Commerce Checkout

Accept global payments on e-commerce stores and marketplaces.

Cross-Border B2B Payments

Pay international suppliers and contractors efficiently.

Employee Expense Management

Issue cards and track employee spending globally.

Multi-Currency Treasury

Manage treasury operations across multiple currencies.

Marketplace Split Payments

Collect and distribute payments to marketplace sellers.

SaaS Platform Monetization

Embed payment processing into SaaS platforms.

Freelancer Payouts

Pay remote workers and freelancers in their local currencies.

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Airwallex — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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